17 Reasons to Be Excited Baseball Is Back

It’s been 159 days since the Giants won the World Series, but fear not, because our long national nightmare has ended. Today baseball returns. (Okay, well last night, but that ESPN game before the wild, wonderful marathon of traditional Opening Day is the worst and we’re all better off pretending it doesn’t happen.) Here are 17 reasons to get excited that America’s pastime is back.

1. Some 24-year-old minor leaguer you’ve never heard of, and who is currently riding buses to places like Durham and Pawtucket and Norfolk, will be a giant star in six months.

2. Vin Scully will be saying "It’s time for Dodger baseball!" just like he has every year since Harry Truman was president.

**3. Fantasy baseball is like fantasy football only more intense, more addicting, and offers far more opportunities to procrastinate at work. **